Ocasio-Cortez compares GOP to Dwight from ‘The Office’

Rep. (D-N.Y.) said the GOP is “basically Dwight from The Office” because Republicans take humor and sarcasm literally.

“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote Sunday. “Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows.”

This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and “fact check” it.

Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.

Her criticism of Republicans — comparing them to the iconic antagonist from the popular television show “The Office” — came after a Twitter thread the freshman lawmaker started Saturday in which she explained her thought process behind imposing more taxes on the superrich.

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Ocasio-Cortez detailed her own “income transition” from waitress to representative and shot down myths of those with bad credit or bills being financially irresponsible.

“When we say ‘tax the rich,’ we mean nesting-doll yacht rich. For-profit prison rich. , student-loan-shark rich,” she wrote on Twitter Saturday. “Because THAT kind of rich is simply not good for society, & it’s like 10 people.”